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in. Test^cSa. Animals, generally of the 

 foregoing order, but included in a (hell. 



This order takes in the whole tribe of (hells, 

 confifting of upwards of 800 fpecies, under 36 

 genera^ and difpofed in a method entirely new. 

 The three firft genera are the muUivalves^ the next 

 fourteen bivalves^ and the remainder univalves, 



IV. LiTHOPHYTA. Compofite animals, affixed 

 to, and fabricating a fixed calcareous bafe, called 

 CoraL 



This order contains 59 fpecies, under {our gene-* 

 ra : the Tubipora^ red tubular Coral ; Madrepores or 

 Brain Stones 5 Millepores 5 and another called Cel- 

 Upore, 



V. ZoopHYTA. Animal compofite, refembling a 

 flower, and fpringing from a vegetating ftem. 



This order contains 14 genera, of which nine 

 are fixed, and the other locomotive : amongft the 

 former rank the Ifis or red Coral, Sea Fan, Al- 

 cyonium^ Sponge, Corallines, &c. : among the 

 latter, the Polype, Sea Pens, T^nia^ Furia^ and 

 laftly the a(remblage of chaotic, or microfcopi- 

 cal Animalcula, The fpecies under this order are 

 156. 



The generical diftindions among the Intestina 

 arife from the diverfity of the body of the animal, 

 almoft folely. 



In the MoLLUscA, from the body and feelers, 

 f:alled tmtacula^ and from other parts. 



In the Testacea, the included aqimal, the 

 general differences between the (hells themfelves, 

 J)ut principally the cardo or hinge iii the bivalves^ 



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